As the night deepened, Li Yan still sat in front of the window, thinking over and over again in his mind about the murderer's methods.
I went over in my mind all the people who were present during the day, and every word they said, but there were still a few key points that I couldn't figure out.
It’s not that Li Yan is keen on other people’s affairs, but he is somewhat impressed by the method of killing.
This is exactly what he has been hoping to use. Unless the situation reaches a certain level, he never wants to fight with others head-on. He will only use head-on confrontation in specific circumstances.
For example, they will face the opponent head-on when their abilities are much stronger than their opponent's, or when they are fighting with multiple people and need to boost morale.
Li Yan prefers to kill people without them being seen and defeat the enemy with cleverness, so he is very interested in today's events. For him, this is as important as cultivation.
Just as Li Yan was thinking, his eyes suddenly flashed and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Someone's out again!"
The protective formation in his room was not activated, and his spiritual awareness spread out to cover the entire courtyard. He just sat in front of the window, not afraid of being spied on by others.
He knew that there were formations in some places outside the courtyard, so his spiritual consciousness did not leave the courtyard.
Although he didn't know whether all the restrictions of the formation had been activated in Xuanqing Temple, he didn't want his spiritual sense to accidentally touch it and trigger the restrictions, which would be noticed by others and cause unnecessary trouble.
In Li Yan's consciousness, the hunchbacked old man had now turned into a wisp of smoke and disappeared from the room.
The next moment, he appeared under the big tree in the courtyard. His figure was extremely blurry, and under the moonlight, he almost merged into the big tree behind him.
The hunchbacked old man first sent a faint spiritual sense towards Li Yan's room.
He saw that Li Yan was sitting in the room with an uneasy look on his face, staring blankly out the window, as if he was lost in thought. However, the moment his spiritual consciousness entered Li Yan's room, it paused.
The hunchbacked old man was also stunned. He didn't expect that there was no protective formation activated in Li Yan's room. In the cultivator's consciousness, everything about the other party was like a transparent person.
Seeing Li Yan in deep thought, the hunchbacked old man couldn't help but feel a little contemptuous.
"At first I thought I had met an expert, but I didn't expect him to be so stupid. I guess he must be a disciple from some big sect who came out to gain experience on his own.
There was no elder around him, so he was so reckless and unprepared. Now that he has encountered trouble, he obviously regrets it.
Maybe he has some kind of life-saving magic weapon bestowed by his elders, so the fluctuations in his aura seem very mysterious. As for what the young master said, there are many books in the big sects, so it is normal to have incomplete records occasionally..."
After seeing everything in front of him, he withdrew his spiritual consciousness.
The next moment, with a solemn expression, he carefully extended his spiritual sense to the other side - the two rooms where the two men in black robes lived.
What the hunchbacked old man didn't know was that his every move was covered by Li Yan's spiritual sense, but he was still unaware of it.
Li Yan saw the hunchbacked old man withdraw his spiritual awareness and focus his energy on the other two rooms in the courtyard, ignoring him, and couldn't help but chuckle in his heart.
When looking towards the lotus pond at this moment, I saw Qin Chengyi picking up the wine jug and taking a sip from the window of a room diagonally opposite.
When he put down the wine jug, he happened to see Li Yan looking up at him. Across half of the lotus pond, he actually raised the wine jug in his hand to Li Yan, but he seemed to be thinking about something and was absent-minded. His raised arm actually paused in the air.
After seeing this, Li Yan nodded to the other party from a distance.
At this moment, Li Yan's face changed and a shrill scream suddenly rang out. The scream instantly pierced the sky in the silent night sky and echoed in all directions.
In the middle of the night, it makes people feel creepy when they hear it.
What changed Li Yan's color was not the miserable cry, but the fact that the cry did not come from the courtyard covered by his spiritual consciousness, but from the courtyard next door.
Li Yan's spiritual sense spread out instantly, and just when his spiritual sense went out of the courtyard wall, he felt a figure disappear in the distance. Li Yan hesitated for a moment, but still did not continue to follow with his spiritual sense.
In his spiritual sense, that person was obviously very familiar with the environment here, and his route was also strange, obviously he was avoiding something.
The screams were extremely harsh in the night. The hunchbacked old man under the tree, his spiritual sense had just detected one of the rooms where the man in black robe lived.
Although there was a protective formation in the room, he tried to see if he could find out some information about the other party with his magic power without alerting the other party. The sudden scream frightened him so much that he almost lost his mind, and his spiritual consciousness almost hit the formation directly.
Immediately, cold sweat broke out on his body. In a flash, he did not fly towards the place where the scream came from, but came directly to the outside of the house where he and the young master lived, and hid in the room in a flash.
The purple-shirted young man in the room's face changed after the scream. As soon as he stood up, he felt a gust of cold wind blowing in front of him. His eyes blurred and a figure stood in front of him.
"What's going on, Uncle Sang?"
The purple-robed young man's face tensed, but when he saw who it was, he breathed a sigh of relief and asked hurriedly.
"I don't know. The scream came from the courtyard next door, and it almost exposed my whereabouts."
The hunchbacked old man also answered with a look of surprise on his face. He calmed himself down and continued.
"Fortunately, I was able to control it in time with my spiritual sense. I'm sure those two didn't notice it. Let's go out and take a look. With all the noise, if we stay in the room, it will definitely arouse suspicion from others."
The purple-shirted young man said with some concern.
"What kind of incident has happened?"
While doubting, he also agreed with Uncle Sang's words.
The hunchbacked old man did not answer his question and turned around and walked out of the room. How could he know what had happened
When the purple-shirted young man opened the door, he saw Li Yan, who seemed to be hesitant, had walked into the yard and was looking around in a daze.
After seeing the young man in purple and the hunchbacked old man come out, Li Yan's expression relaxed. The two men saw these expressions and could see Li Yan's worry.
The hunchbacked old man thought to himself.
"I've never seen storms before, so I'm really scared!"
The young man in purple bowed to Li Yan.
"My fellow Taoist, do you know what happened?"
Li Yan quickly returned the greeting, speaking with a hint of nervousness in his confusion.
"I don't know. I was thinking about something in my room when I heard someone calling me. I came out right away. The sound seemed to come from the courtyard next door."
The purple-robed young man nodded when he heard the voice coming from the next door. He looked back and around, but did not see the two black-robed men. He could not help but glance at the hunchbacked old man, who shook his head slightly, indicating that he did not know. The purple-robed young man was surprised that the voice had been heard for a while. Even if there was a formation to block the sound, with the alertness of the monks, the two black-robed men should have known it long ago, but it was not convenient to ask at this time.
The hunchbacked old man and the purple-robed young man looked at each other, and their spiritual sense was quietly released. After a moment, both of them withdrew their spiritual sense, and did not find anyone in their spiritual sense.
This was also because the two of them were concerned about the formation here and did not dare to send their spiritual sense too far. They just went slightly out of the courtyard, took a quick look, and then retracted it.
At this moment, sounds of breaking through the air were heard from somewhere far or near. Li Yan and the other two in the courtyard looked at each other and then walked towards the gate.
At this moment, the two men in black robes were even more furious.
After they left the courtyard early, after some thought, they wanted to try the magic weapon in their hands first to see if it was effective in breaking the formation of Xuanqing Temple. If it was confirmed that it was effective, they could turn back and leave smoothly.
However, just when the two of them had left the courtyard for more than two hundred feet, a terrifying scream was heard from behind them, and the two of them secretly cried out inwardly that something was wrong.
Although they didn't know what had happened, the Taoist temple would soon be filled with monks. In a hurry, the two of them didn't even dare to release their spiritual sense, and quickly used their body skills to fly back.
But when they were still five or six feet away from the courtyard where they lived, they suddenly heard a loud shout.
"Don't try to run away, you thief!"
As they were talking, seven or eight figures were already shooting towards them, and in the distance from all directions, there were more sounds of breaking through the air approaching.
The two men in black robes looked very different, and their movements immediately slowed down. After a moment, they stopped and stood still. As they whispered to each other, their faces gradually returned to calm.
But in fact, he was shocked and angry in his heart, knowing that something was wrong. He could not move at this moment, otherwise a big battle would break out immediately.
Just as they stopped, seven or eight figures came rushing over and landed directly in front of the two of them. They were Kong Nantai and several disciples.
At this moment, Kong Nantai's face was a little cold. After the incident during the day, the head senior brother arranged for him to continue on duty tonight. But just now when he was patrolling not far from here, he heard screams here.
His face changed and he rushed here with all his strength. When he was close to the place where the scream came from, two figures appeared in his consciousness, passing by quickly in the night. He shouted loudly, and the two figures stopped immediately, which made him feel a little strange.
It's not that Kong Nan's spiritual sense covers a small range. He is a foundation-building cultivator, so hundreds of miles are no problem for him. It's just that after the formation in Xuanqing Temple was activated, many places have been isolated from the spiritual sense. This is not only true for the enemies, but also for the Taoists in Xuanqing Temple.
Therefore, it is useless to release spiritual consciousness too far!
After Kong Nantai saw the two people clearly under the moon, he couldn't help but speak in a cold voice.
"My two Taoist friends, where are you going so late at night?"
As he spoke, his eyes were fixed on the two men in black robes.
But he suddenly raised one hand and waved it forward. Two disciples immediately flashed out behind him, left first, and shot directly towards the place where the scream came from.
When the two men in black robes saw Kong Nantai asking questions, although they were complaining in their hearts, they had to answer with gritted teeth. The older man in black robe bowed.
"It turned out to be Brother Kong. My brother and I were feeling depressed after what happened during the day, so we wanted to go out and relax along the lotus pond.
But just after walking about a hundred feet, I heard screams behind me, and immediately rushed over to see what happened. Before I got there, I ran into Fellow Daoist Kong.
Just as the man in black robe was speaking, one of the two disciples who had gone over ran back in a hurry, shouting loudly.
"Uncle Kong, something bad has happened. Uncle Song has been killed."
Although everyone here had been prepared for the worst, they still felt nervous after hearing the disciple's shout.
Especially the two men in black robes, they felt their scalps tingling.
At this moment, the sound of breaking air was approaching from all directions, like flashing meteors in the dark night.
Taoist Gong, Hall Master Ji and three other foundation-building monks from the Taoist temple had heard the noise and rushed over. When they were in the air, they heard the disciple's shouting.
At this time, Li Yan and the other two had just stepped out of the courtyard and also heard the panicked voice.
Looking at the whistling light not far away and the two groups of people confronting each other nearby, they all stopped at the gate of the courtyard. The young man in purple and the hunchbacked old man looked at each other with an incredible look in their eyes.
The purple-shirted young man immediately sent a secret message.
"Uncle Sang, those two actually went out to kill someone?"
The hunchbacked old man looked at where the black-robed man was standing, and then looked at the young Taoist priest who was running out shouting. The two black-robed men were standing only about four feet away from the gate of the next courtyard, and no matter how you looked at it, they looked like they had just come out from inside.
For a moment, the hunchbacked old man also thought that this was the case.
When the two men in black robes heard the young Taoist priest's shouting, they kept groaning in their hearts.
Although the two of them were quite confident in their own cultivation, they looked at the several sharp auras approaching, especially the one led by Taoist Gong, who was already close to the Golden Core realm, and they did not dare to act rashly.
As he spoke, Taoist Gong arrived with overwhelming anger. Looking at the two men in black robes in front of him, his face was as gloomy as water, and murderous intent was surging in his eyes, as if he could attack at any time in the next moment.
The other cultivators from Xuanqing Temple behind him were also filled with murderous intent. Although they didn't know what was happening on the scene, they heard the disciple's shouting clearly just now.
After Taoist Gong glanced at Master Ji behind him, he suppressed his murderous intent, ignored the two men in black robes, and walked directly into the courtyard, speaking coldly.
"Leave ten disciples to guard the door, and the rest of you, get out of here."
Master Ji certainly understood the meaning in the eyes of the head brother. At this moment, he had to find out the reason of the matter first.
"Four junior brothers, please wait here. I and the head brother will go over to check the situation."
He stared at the man in black robe, but spoke word by word to the three junior brothers and sisters behind him.
After saying that, he also walked straight into the courtyard, leaving Kong Nantai and three other foundation-building cultivators to tightly surround the two men in black robes.
Li Yan and the other two in the distance witnessed everything before their eyes. Seeing that Taoist Gong and Master Ji had already walked into the courtyard, the hunchbacked old man could not help but sigh and spoke.
"Master, let's go over there too."
The young man in purple nodded when he heard this and turned his head to Li Yan.
"Fellow Daoist, do you want to go over and see what happened?"
Li Yan still had a trace of fear on his face. After hearing what the purple-shirted young man said, his face turned bitter.
"Even if they don't go over there, I think they will come to our door after a while. This place is really evil!